Centre for Climate and Society Annual Conference

Tue, 16/04/2024 - 09:00 to Tue, 16/04/2024 - 17:00

Campus

Glasnevin Campus

Venue

The Helix

Target Audience

All Welcome

Is registration required?

Yes

Climate Justice Across Generations

Please join us for the fourth annual DCU Centre for Climate and Society conference, taking place on 16 April in The Helix.

The climate crisis raises deep and complex questions of justice, within and across national borders and between generations. As we face into a very unequal and unjust future, this year’s DCU Centre for Climate and Society annual conference will examine how the worlds of media, politics and policy, activism, and business can address urgent calls for climate justice to address the many inequities generated by the climate crisis.

The conference will feature keynote contributions from Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and Chair of The Elders, participants in Ireland’s Children and Young People’s Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, and Ella Saltmarshe, co-founder of The Long Time Project.

Conference programme

Time	Details	Speakers
9.00	Registration Tea & coffee
9.30	Welcome	Dr Diarmuid Torney, Centre for Climate and Society Director and Associate Professor, DCU School of Law and Government
9.35	Address by Centre founding partner	Glenn Gillard, Sustainability Market Lead, Deloitte Ireland
9.45	Keynote address	Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and Chair of The Elders Introduction by Professor Dáire Keogh, DCU President
10.30	Coffee break
10.50	Panel 1 How can policy address long-term climate inequities in Ireland and beyond?	Dr Sinead Walsh, Climate Director, Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs Sushila Pandit, PhD Candidate, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, UK Róisín Greaney, Researcher and Community Engagement Coordinator – Climate Justice, TASC Dr Darren Clarke, Assistant Professor in Climate and Environmental Change, DCU School of History and Geography Chair: Dr Ross Carroll, Assistant Professor in Political Science, DCU School of Law and Government
11.50	Keynote address	Roundtable discussion featuring participants in Ireland’s Children and Young People’s Assembly on Biodiversity Loss
12.30	Lunch
1.30	Keynote address	Ella Saltmarshe, Co-founder, The Long Time Project Introduction by Professor Derek Hand, Executive Dean, DCU Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
2.30	Panel 2 How can the business world embrace a long-term perspective in its decision-making?	Aoife Connaughton, Director, Sustainability & Climate, Deloitte Ireland Bernadette Phelan, Head of Advisory Services, Business in the Community Dr Sriteja Reddy Wudaru, Assistant Professor in Sustainable Innovation, DCU Business School Karen Doyle, Head of Business Development, Gas Networks Ireland Chair: Dr Aideen O'Dochartaigh, Assistant Professor in Accounting, DCU Business School
3.30	Coffee break
3.45	Panel 3 Climate journalism: newsroom time vs geological time	Shauna Corr, Environment correspondent, Reach Ireland John Gibbons, Environmental journalist and commentator Sinéad Crowley, Director of Media Development, Coimisiún na Meán Dr David Robbins, Centre for Climate and Society Co-Director and Associate Professor, DCU School of Communications Chair: Dr Trish Morgan, Assistant Professor, DCU School of Communications
4.45	Closing reflection	Jane Clarke, Poet, author and editor Introduction by Dr Ellen Howley, Assistant Professor, DCU School of English

Travel information

We encourage all conference attendees to use active travel or public transport to reach The Helix, located on the DCU Glasnevin Campus. Information on walking, cycling or taking the bus to campus, can be found here. There is a multi-storey car park on the Glasnevin Campus, accessed via the Collins Avenue entrance, but spaces are limited. Please find details here.